10 Biggest Problems With Captain America: Civil War

Compare Captain America: Civil War to Batman v Superman, and it feels like comparing Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo to Citizen Kane; they're on a completely different level, quality-wise. Without question, Marvel's latest delivered the inter-superhero melee that fans were clamouring for, and even bothered to give all the characters a good reason to fight! Who'd have thought?

Positive points aside, though (of which there were many), it almost feels like - in our collective rush to call deem the film to be a "comic book masterpiece" - we've overlooked a lot of its inherent flaws; aspects that the movie did not pull of quite as well as others, moments where the narrative betrayed itself and opted for a shortcut, or plot points that were shoe-horned into place with little subtly.

In short, problems that nobody wants to admit are even there because they'd prefer to think of this movie as one that doesn't really have any.

Unfortunately, that just isn't the case...

Civil War is made up of a lot of great and memorable scenes, but - as if often a case with a blockbuster of this kind - it never gets better than its opening in terms of action, fun factor and all-round superhero hi-jinks: the Nigeria-set, exotic counter-heist sequence, in which the Avengers attempt to stop Crossbones from stealing a dangerous virus from a secured location, is balls to the wall brilliance.

Filmmakers often want to ensure that the opening of their film is so awesome that they invest absolutely everything into making it spectacular; in this case, they pull off a total blinder, but it's hard for the rest of the flick to live up to the sheer joy of what's on display in the first 20 minutes, as we get a glimpse at the Avengers out on a mission, using their powers as a team.

For anyone who's saying: "Hey, you're forgetting the battle at the airport - isn't that the best scene by a sizeable margin?" Well, almost - except it's rendered in muted greys and browns and has a generally bittersweet, downbeat tone. It's hard to enjoy it fully - and the same way - when it's superhero vs. superhero.

Which means that the key scene set in Nigeria is very much Civil War's best moment - it's an incredible and relentless dollop of pure cinematic honey.